Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is an internationally accepted process of assessing
non-formal learning with the intention of matching it to academic credits. This allows the
candidate to earn either a full or partial ...

The literature on career calls for a transformation and redefinition of career. In this paper we take a step back and ask: ‘what is a career?’. Careers as works are presented; those entities that set up and formed the world ...

The role of entrepreneurship within the context of an emerging economy has been well documented. Specifically within the South African context, the concept of entrepreneurship has been embraced by most industry sectors ...

Every year, more and more management positions are being filled by engineers and other technical personnel in spite of dual or parallel path systems for promotions in many companies. In spite of the centrality of engineers ...

This article argues that there is a difference in leadership styles between experienced and inexperienced engineers in South Africa. It was found that experienced engineers are more transformational and more
transactional ...

One of the most important prerequisites for economic competitiveness in the global economy, is the delivery of a unique product or service. In order to achieve this level of competitiveness, transformational rather than ...

The relationship between two of the dimensions of the 4-D theory (Raubenheimer, 1978), namely the time dimension (Augustyn, 1978) and the depth dimension (De Jager, 1979) has been investigated. The hypothesis that there ...

This dissertation asks the ontological question relating to the very nature of the entity called ‘career’, and the activities that deal with this entity, namely, career guidance and counselling. To answer this question, ...

The high rate of unemployment in South Africa is of national concern yet the experience of being unemployed is little understood; not enough is known about the unemployed condition in South Africa.
In this study eight ...

The widespread acceptance of the Big Five model implies that personality consists of relatively independent dimensions that form a taxonomy whereby individual differences may be explained. The purpose of this study was to ...

The principal objective of the study was to determine the utility of canonical correlation analysis, coupled with target rotation, in coping with the effects of differential skewness of variables representing two batteries ...

The purpose of this study was to validate the Learning Transfer System Inventory (LTSI) in the South African context. The sample used in this study was a convenience sample of 240 employees working for a Banking group. ...

The principal objective of the study was to determine the cognitive, educational and personality correlates of the revised edition (1995) of the Locus of Control Inventory (LCI). The three-factor-structure of the LCI was ...

In this article it is proposed that conventional conceptions of validity as applied in the field of Industrial and Organisational Psychological (IOP) assessment tend to emphasise technical aspects that result in an unintended ...

The Assessment Centre is a process involving a number of participants who take part in
a series of individual and group exercises administered by a specialist, while being observed by several specially trained impartial ...

A major problem in shiftwork research has been the lack of uniform measuring procedures across studies. The Standard Shiftwork Index (SSI) contains a battery of self-report questionnaires which was developed to address ...

The impact of globalisation continues to divide economies around the world into
fast and slow moving economies. The former are producing wealth at an
exponential rate whilst the latter continue to lag in their wake.
The ...

According to the World Competitiveness Report: 1999, South Africa ranks poorly in terms of delivering customer services (Garelli, 1999). In order to assist South African organisations to identify their customers' value ...

The purpose of this study was to determine if significant differences exist between the multi-rater competency evaluations of employees operating within a flat organisational structure. Sixty-eight marketing employees were ...

Prediction of academic success of first year students. The recent amalgamation of the various regional education systems in South Africa and as a result, the restructuring of the education dispensation, led to a number of ...